Wigan St Helens News

Tributes after death of former Wigan Council leader Lord Peter Smith

Silver medal for Wigan's Keely Hodgkinson in women's 800 metres in Tokyo

Ed Clancy retires and pulls out of Olympics

Murder investigation underway in St Helens

Drug testing programme in Greater Manchester hoped to save lives this summer

Respiratory viruses spreading in children adding to GP pressures

Tickets for Peter Kay's stage return sell out in less than 30 minutes

UK summer temperatures could hit 40c by end of the decade

Non-urgent council services remain under threat as council staff 'pinged'

Investment into St Helens town centre businesses

Passengers encouraged to plan their Metrolink journey due to fewer trams

Climate experts in Manchester warn of more heatwaves and flooding

'Devious & manipulative' Wigan man jailed for child abduction and sex offences

Meet the athletes representing Wigan and St Helens at the Olympics

Wigan's council services scaled back as staff isolate amid rise in Covid cases

Urgent plea amid growing worries about wildfires in the North West

Extra covid support to continue for Wigan and St Helens

St Helens win Challenge Cup for first time in thirteen years

Wigan Love Island star apologises following racial slur claims

Wigan claim second win in six days over Huddersfield

St Helens to face Castleford Tigers in Challenge Cup final

Man in hospital after assault in St Helens

St Helens family rescued from house fire

Wigan health bosses urge "Extreme caution" ahead of lockdown easing

Improving work opportunities in St Helens

Patient numbers increase in St Helens

One in six children in key worker households in the North West live in poverty

Footballers go coast-to-coast to raise awareness of mental health

"Freedom for who? It's not for people like me" - vulnerable people are worried for 'Freedom Day'

Charity run to mark 21st Birthday of Wigan student who died of sepsis

Shadow Foreign Sec & Wigan MP urges ministers to threaten China with Olympics boycott

England play Denmark in Euro semi-final

Public transport users to be ‘strongly encouraged’ to continue wearing masks after July 19

Warnings issued over the prime ministers plan to scrap nearly all covid restrictions

A man from Wigan has been jailed after sexually abusing four children

Parbold murderer spent two hours in jail before transfer to hospital granted